Internal Martial Arts - a short documentary

[@semillaelectromagnetica]

Woow very cool video !! 👏👏

[@johnanthony6765]

Absolutely agree 100%. I've been training in martial arts for over 40 years. I'm still learning about myself in the martial arts. The internal aspect of martial arts is sorely lacking in today's society. Love this is doco!!!! Well done.

[@jn846]

for a couple years I took Tai Chi classes from a Tai Chi Grandmaster. Strangely enough the class was taught at Boston University in the gymnasium by Storrow Drive if you know that area. At the time I did not know the immense power he had. He looked like an old Chinese man but he eyes would sparkle so you knew there was something about him that was extra-ordinary. He wasn't tall and didn't appear to have a lot of bulky muscles, in fact his arms looks rather normal. He always liked to say "Tai Chi makes your bones heavier". I thought that was interesting but didn't really give it much thought beyond that. Until one day I was talking to him and he says "here hold my arm". Ha, that sounded a bit unusual but he held out his arm and I put my hand underneath, I was NOT prepared for what happened next. He let the dead weight of his arm drop and I immediately felt this huge heavy weight drop down into my hand. I was SHOCKED at how heavy his arm was. Of course he knew all along what my reaction would be as he smiled when I made an audible and visible facial expression. Sure enough the weight of his arm was proof that Tai Chi does make your bones heavier. It's the same as saying it increases bone density. Of course that bone density comes from years and years of standing meditation for hours each day. You don't get it over night! And so I learned that day that Tai Chi is not about the muscles, it's about the bones. That is where the real power comes from. His bones literally were like steel. Just amazing. I could not imagine if you were every hit by him. He could likely crush you with a single blow! Fortunately though he was the nicest person and always smiled and laughed. He especially like to laugh at us when he had us doing standing meditation and we would be shaking and sweating, he would come by and point his finger at us and say "no pain no gain, hahah". He seemed to enjoy that, LOL!

[@thomasaagren]

Very well done and inspirering - makes me feel like doing Wing Chun again 🙂 I do wonder How wing chun Can be Seen as leading to more “natural movement” though? - it is quite technical and far from the gross motor skill type movements that fighting often brings forth? 🤔😊